28/10/16

Allison Crutchfield (P.S. Eliot, Swearin’) has announced her debut solo album. It’s called Tourist in This Town, and it’s out via Merge Records. She has also shared a music video for the album’s first offering, “Dean’s Room.” Directed by Lara Jean Gallagher, the video (watch below) shows scenes of Crutchfield dancing around a home alongside the dancer Marlee Grace. In the video Gallagher “wanted to counter the upbeat tempo of the song with moments that felt like taffy,” she...

20/10/16

Austra, the recording project led by Canadian vocalist and producer Katie Stelmanis, is pleased to announce Future Politics, the third full length in their discography.

Inspired by her time living in two cities – Montreal and Mexico City – and propelled by economic and philosophical texts she was reading throughout the album’s creation, Stelmanis was driven to face the world’s ailments with positivity, purpose, and engagement, rather than detachment or despair. Inspiration also came from European club...

This is not a love song', said John Lydon, back when he wasn’t advertising butter.

And this is not a love story, either, as many of John & Jehn’s lyrics will bear witness to.

"It's about the despair of being in love" explains Jehn, with reference to 'Love Is Not Enough', a track from their forthcoming second album to be released on France’s Naïve label, 'Time For The Devil' (inspired by a short parable called ‘La Hora del Diablo’ by the Portugese writer and poet Fernando Pessoa). "You know when you wake up in the morning and the only thing you want...